 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under...  Studies in Literature and Style - Página 289por Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when ' I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue. For history there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 304 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue. For history there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue. For history there... | |
 | 1872 - 488 páginas
...recreation and amusement. All such may without harm follow the rule laid down for himself by Mr. Emerson : " I should as soon think of swimming across Charles river, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue." Very well. But Mr.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. ... I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. Books. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1875 - 730 páginas
...instances, to the originals. Much valuable time, he considers, is lost in reading the latter. He likes to be beholden to the "great Metropolitan English...receives tributaries from every region under heaven." Three rules he lays down for our guidance. They are briefly, first, "never read any book that is not... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. ... I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. Books. 1 We arc never... | |
 | Frederick William Ricord - 1879 - 230 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue." It may be claimed... | |
 | 1879 - 760 páginas
...New York : Charle« T. Dillinghtun. Toronto : Urnrt & Rawlinsoti. lieholden,' as Emerson has it, ' to the great Metropolitan English speech, the sea...receives tributaries from every region under Heaven.' The writer has tried to reflect the poetry of England, and to preserve the language in all its purity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 páginas
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother' tongue. For history there... | |
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